There's a big difference between virii and viral RNA being found after 17 days. One will kill you. The other is just viral wreckage.
As one of 9 million recently unemployed, I'd gently remind you that while the changes to our behaviour are simple, they have real costs.
At this point new hospital admissions are significantly down from their peak. If the point is to slow the spread but acknowledging that it cannot be eliminated, we’ve in fact over-corrected.
On the testing and PPE front, again I wonder if this is just a feel good notion or if there’s even napkin math to show what scale of PPE and testing is theoretically being deployed and what impact that may have on R0.
But returning to the core point, how long until COVID has runs its course, and at what cost? Can we admit that herd immunity must be reached? As Dr. Birx repeatedly asks, are we at the tip of the iceberg or 25/50/75% of the way through?
No one wants to think about it because I guess it would make an uncomfortable choice obvious. Better to just self-flagellate so we can feel like we’re doing something.
Likewise groceries, parcels and deliveries either go into quarantine for 2 or 3 days or they are washed.